Wednesday, July 26, 2017

When someone likes ping pong, you can't resist playing on the ship. They had a tournament to find the best player on board. There were some serious players who brought their own paddles (they weren't allowed to use them).

Monday, July 24, 2017

We wanted to swim with dolphins, but that was booked so we chose stingrays instead.

On the boat out

Touching one

Kissing one

It's on my back. I'm not so sure about this

No fair! He has a shirt on

The ride back. Happy boys

This photo shows her personality - always independent

Overall this wasn't the best excursion for us. Two of us get motion sick - not an issue on a large boat, but a huge issue on a small boat to and from the excursion. Then when we got to the sandbar, I could only reach the bottom if I was standing on tip toe while holding a kid who was afraid of the stingrays. The stingrays don't move around people, so when a 6 foot wide stingray would come by it would knock me over. This didn't help the anxious child. So we switched which child we were holding. I held the happy one who wanted to be close up for the meeting with a stingray. Then the anxious child and I went back to the boat until it was time to go.

Friday, July 21, 2017

We paid to go to a private beach owned by the cruise company while in Jamaica. The water was beautiful and the kids wanted to swim all the way to the ropes.

The nice water

Only, Sweet Daughter somehow let the rope touch her back and was bitten by some awful thing.

She spent an hour screaming in pain. After tracking down the lifeguard (asleep behind the lifeguard tower), he gave us some cream to put on it. That didn't help. I took her back to the boat and gave her some anti-inflammatories and a shower. She calmed down about 30 minutes after that.

While I was taking care of Sweet Daughter, The boys continued to play at the beach.